Allowing multiple choices of data elements enables people to customize views of your data and adds value to your applications. The following example utilizes our db on the career statistics of Hammerin? Hank Greenberg. The year and team he played with are already part of the sql request to the db. User inputted choice(s) are added to the basic sql statement to draw them from the db. Since the input from the dropdown menu comes through comma delimited it is simply written into the statement without modification. Two simple for next loops determine which elements are part of the record set and displays them accordingly.
Many a time, you are confronted with creating a system DSN for use with ASP. If you have an ISP account, this might take time and more than sometimes - money. This article describes how to use File DSNs and save time and money. Also, you can reuse these DSNs and thus, with some modifications, use the same DSN for as many database connections.
Sometimes we worry about limits of database table and we need to know how manay recods we have. In ASP we could count all recods using a loop. But if we have a small piece of knowledge about SQL script, our script works better and faster.
source code can compact and repair your MS-Access database files. If you compact your access files regularly, it will work more faster and secure. Also you will save some hard disk space.
This application is for the beginners who wonder how to build their own web database system on their own computers. I will use Microsoft FrontPage98 and Microsoft Access in the demonstration. The reader should be familiar with the RDBMS concept and know how to use Microsoft Access tool to build a local database system. They should also have the Northwind.mdb file, which is included in Microsoft Office 97.
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